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Labour contract of the stablehand Phoibammon with the comes Flavius Sergius TM 36180Oxyrhynchites (?)VI - VII

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Fragment of a labour contract in which Aurelius Phoibammon, a stablehand and son of Phib, acknowledges an agreement with Flavius Sergius, a high-ranking comes. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] Epeiph 8 […] indiction, in […] To Flavius Sergius, the most admired comes, from the […] city, Aurelius Phoibammon, stablehand, son of Phib, from the same city. I acknowledge that I have agreed with your Brilliance […] […] […] [verso] † Agreement of Phoibammon […]

A stablitēs was a stable worker or groom, often employed on large estates; the terms of the agreement are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Arbeitsvertrages von einem Stallmeister). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII · Oxyrhynchites (?)

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